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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kevinmgill@deepspace.social ("Kevin M. Gill") wrote:
A protostar embedded in a protoplanetary disk embedded in the dark molecular cloud LDN1527. You’re seeing an infant (100,000 years old) solar system about 447 light years away. The star itself is hidden from view by the edge-on protoplanetary disk occupying the ‘neck’ of the hourglass shaped nebula. This is processed from image data taken by JWST in September 2022.
NASA/ESA/CSA/Pontoppidan, Klaus M. (PI)/Kevin M. Gill
